We'd like to let people know that our skin is work that was inspired by a piece of fan art created by Frostyflytrap. I didn't realise when I'd originally launched the skin, apologies!

We thought it was a cool concept and based a skin around the idea, you can see the original fan art here.

Thanks Frostyflytrap! :)

We should be adding some avatars to the skin some time today, so be sure come back a bit later to search for them!

If you have any fan art related to Nitrome, Nitrome characters or even Nitrome music, feel free to send it in! Who knows, we may feature it in the blog, or like this piece, use it as inspiration for something on the site!

Today's Pixel Love game is Caverns of IO by Merrak. The game is very addictive with it's well known control method and retro looking ASCII maps. Using your WASD keys to fire and dispatch enemy whilst using your cursor (Arrow) keys to move around the environments, you can explore different strategies when facing the enemy.

When battling with the "purple zeroes", we found that attrition was the best way to go. Let them run their energy levels low, dodge their fire then go on the offensive!

It's Friday again so we thought we'd update you with a juicy titbit of news. Our upcoming mobile game 8Bit Doves is fast approaching the end zone.

Check out our quick vine video of a level from the games last pack entitled "Nightmare". This pack also introduces one of the many new features of the game 'Boost tiles'. Which as you see make you go lightening fast - (sorry for the pun)

You may also notice in the video that the device has changed again as it is now playable in tablet form.

We have now finished making all of the levels and are currently testing on multiple devices, fixing bugs, adding a few additional sounds, and making the levels pretty.

We hope that you are as excited as we are to see another Nitrome game on your devices.

Well this took a while… Bump Battle Royale is finally out! After lots of testing, tweaking and more testing, we’re happy to say that the game is finished and ready for you to play.

Bump Battle Royale is an arena based sumo wrestling bumper car type affair! Honestly… that’s the best way we can describe it!

Play on your own against some of your favourite Nitrome characters in campaign mode to unlock new arenas and make those beaten characters available for you to play.

If you want some multiplayer action, play with up to 3 friends in 2 game modes, Last Man Standing and Team Battle Mode. Available with or without Touchy. We’ve been playing this a lot and think this is the best way to enjoy the game.

So get your gaming fingers ready, ‘cause it’s gonna be a bumpy ride! (Sorry I couldn’t resist!) We hope you have a great weekend battling through our latest release.

We thought we'd share a super quick update on 8Bit Doves progress. Take a sneak peak at a level in the 2nd pack with a brand new element, moving walls... dum dum dum!

The release will include three packs in total, the second of which is called Deep Sleep. These packs will include a whole bunch of new level features as-well. (Notice the new handy sideways bed takeoff anyone?)

Anyway we didn't want to spoil too much. But we are happy to report that progress is going rather well so far.

No release date yet though before you ask ;)

There should be more news and small updates on 8Bit Doves nearer to its release.

it's Monday so time for a new Pixel Love which marks the first since we launched the new Pixel Love site last Friday. I am level is a great little game with visuals inspired by the Spectrum era. The game play however is something much more modern with a tilt/pinball based mechanic mixed into a platform adventure. We had a lot of fun with this one and I'm sure you all will too!